Clothes-wringer.



No. 765,514. PATENTED JULY 19, 1904,

v 0. SCHMIDT.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

UNITE STATES Patented July 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CARL SCHMIDT, OF TEGEL, NEAR BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO WIL- LIAM FREDERIC PLASS AND EDWARD LAVVLEY-YORK, OF BERLIN,

GERMANY.

CLOTHES-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 765,514, dated July 19, 1904.

Application filed January 9, 1904. Serial 110,188,289. (N0 model.)

To all. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL SCHMIDT, engineer, a subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, residing at 2 Schiinebergerstrasse, in the town of Tegel, near Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented a certain new and useful Clothes-Winger, of which the following is a specification.

This invention refers to a device for wringing out water or other liquids from fabrics, clothes, and the like.

Several kinds of clothes-wringers have been known heretofore. In one kind of such wringers the clothes are passed between elastic rubber rollers and the water is squeezed out in this manner. Another device of the kind used heretofore is characterized by the clothes being placed in a network tapering down at both ends and one end of which network is revolved by means of a shaft, while the other end is held stationary. By this means the network is twisted from the outer ends toward the middle, so as to effect a progressing squeezing out of the water, which takes place from both ends toward the middle. During this operation the clothes are pressed from the ends toward the middle, and it requires considerable force in order to remove the water from the clothes packed up in the middle, and, besides, in this kind of devices the net is very much worn by the powerful torsion at the two ends.

The present invention follows closely the work of wringing by hand in efiecting the squeezing out of the water from the clothes, the water being removed from the folded clothes progressively by squeezing and twisting from the middle toward both ends and the clothes being also pressed dry without exerting excessive force.

The new device is illustrated on the accompanying drawings in Figures 1, 2, and 3, of which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the wringing-machine, which, for instance, is attached to a washtub. Fig. 2 is a plan View thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 00 y of Fig. 2.

Aswill be seen from Fig. 1, the wringingmachine comprises a base-plate a, which may squeezing of the clothes takes place uniformly be fixed, by means of a clamping-screw b, to 5 the washtub c or to any other suitable underframe in the manner shown in Fig. 1.

The base-plate a is provided with an upright f, forming a bearing for the shank s of a hook-like finger d, rotation of the latter being effected by means of a crank 0, attached to said shank. The opposite end of base-plate a is embraced by sliding members it a, adapted to move freely thereon, said sliding members serving to support the horizontal shank s of an upturned finger g. The sliding member a is provided with a laterally-arranged handle in. The'fingers d and g are adapted to engage and support a bag m, of any suitable material, arranged to receive the clothes, the ends of said bag being slipped over said members.

The mode of operation of the wringing device described is as follows: The clothes are put from above into the bag. They are then distributed conveniently in the same, and the crank awith the bar d, are then turned. As appears from Fig. 1 of the drawings, the bag is twisted during the revolution in a screwlike manner, beginning from the middle of the same, the contents of the bag being thereby tightly squeezed, forcing the water through the meshes of the fabric of said bag, whereby said water will drip or How into the tub. In accordance with the shortening of the bag m consequent upon the twisting of the same the bar 9 is moved with the sliding members h 7;

toward the bar d. This movement may be regulated or controlled at the front guide 71 by means of the handle 74, for while the operator turns the crank with his right hand he may resist the movement of the bar g with his left hand.

As appears from Fig. l of the drawings, the

from the middle toward both ends. By squeezing from the middle toward the ends the clothes are more efficiently squeezed out than is the case when the pressure is proceeding from the ends toward the middle. In the lat ter case the clothes accumulate in the middle, so that it becomes diflicult or it requires more force to squeeze the water from the clothes.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A clothes-wringer comprising a baseplate, a rotatable finger mounted at one end thereof, a second finger mounted to slideon said base-plate, a lateral handle connected with said latter finger, and a flexible receptacle adapted to engage said fingers.

2. A clothes-wringer comprising a baseplate, a rotatable finger mounted at one end thereof, sliding members mounted on the opposite end of said plate, a horizontal shank mounted on said sliding members and provided with a second finger, and a flexible receptacle adapted to engage said fingers.

3. A clothes-wringer comprising a baseplate, a rotatable finger mounted at one end thereof, sliding members mounted on the opposite end of said plate, a horizontal shank mounted on said sliding members and provid ed with a second finger, a lateral handle connected with said shank, and a flexible receptacle adapted to engage said fingers.

4:. A clothes-wringer comprising a baseplate, a rotatable finger mounted at one end thereof, sliding members embracing the opposite end of said base-plate, a second finger carried by said sliding members, a lateral handle carried by one of said sliding members, and a flexible receptacle adapted to engage said fingers.

5. A clothes-wringer comprising a baseplate having an upright bearing at one end, a hook-like finger rotatably mounted therein, an upright finger slidingly mounted on the opposite end of said base-plate, a lateral handle connected therewith and a flexible receptacle adapted to engage said fingers.

6. A clothes-wringer comprising a baseplate provided with a clamp, a rotatable finger mounted at one end of said base-plate, an upright finger slidably mounted on the opposite end of saidbase-plate, a lateral handle connected therewith and a flexible receptacle adapted to engage said fingers.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL SCHMIDT.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY HAsrnR, \VOLDEMAR HAUrT. 

